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FY2026 Significant Sponsored Program Awards Approaching $1 Million or Greater
Updated 05/26/2026
April, 2026
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaudoin, Stephen P | College of Engineering – Chem Engr | Energetics Technology Center / Naval Surface Warfare Ctr Indian Hd Div | CAMEO (Capability for Advanced Modular Energetics Operations) | $3,313,170.00 |
| Cottrell, Kyle Aaron | College of Agriculture – Biochemistry | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Systematic evaluation of competition between dsRNA binding proteins | $2,060,178.00 |
| Guildenbecher, Daniel R | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | University Of Florida / National Nuclear Security Admin | Center for Multiscale Modeling of Multiphase Combustion | $1,025,000.00 |
| Jayant, Krishna | College of Engineering – Biomedical Eng | US Army ACC APG RTP Div | Unraveling Impacts of High-Frequency RF Exposure on Neural Dynamics, Cognition, and Perception | $1,867,281.00 |
| Jung, Andreas | College of Science – Physics & Astronomy | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory / Energy, U.S. Department Of | High Luminosity (HL) LHC CMS Detector Upgrade Project Outer Tracker | $2,029,571.00 |
| Meyer, Scott E | College of Engineering – Zucrow Lab Gen Op | General Electric Company | Design, procure, fabricate, install, and activate the equipment and systems required to test small gas turbine engines at controlled altitude testing conditions in ZL9. | $2,765,940.00 |
| Rasmus, Joel A | Centers & Institutes – CERIAS | Global Affairs Canada | DIGITAL DEFENSE FOR NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE IN SOUTHEAST (C2RS-LATAM) | $994,740.00 |
| Srinivasarao, Madduri | College of Science – Chemistry | Low Institute for Therapeutics | Discovery and optimization of novel targets and therapeutic agents. | $2,000,000.00 |
| Widhalm, Joshua R * | College of Agriculture – Hort/Landscape Archit | Systems & Technology Research / Defense Advanced Res Projects Agency | Using Vegetation as a Predictive Platform for Chemical Surveillance | $2,128,484.00 |
March, 2026
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Habib, Ayman F | College of Engineering – Civil and Construction Engineering | National Science Foundation | FIRE-WUI: Community Resilience Assessment Framework Against WUI Fires using Multi-Resolution Digital Twins | $2,491,133.00 |
| Hanna, Jason A | College of Science – Biological Sciences | Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute | Dissecting the role of tumor suppressing microRNAs in angiosarcoma | $2,188,270.00 |
| Horton, Kyle Gerald | College of Agriculture – Forestry & Natural Resources | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: GCR: Can improved ecological forecasting accelerate sustainability transformation in urban lighting? | $1,547,064.00 |
| Key, Nicole L * | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Pratt & Whitney Group | Experimental Research on Centrifugal Compressor for Auxiliary Power Unit Application | $992,790.00 |
| King, Ceridwyn Ann | College of Health & Human Sci – Hospitality & Tourism Mgmt | Dean & Barbara White Family Fdn | Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation Grant PI King | $10,200,000.00 |
| Knobloch, Neil A | College of Agriculture – Ag Admin | National Science Foundation | Developing and Testing Innovations (DTI): Interdisciplinary iNcubation STEM design challenges through community Engagement with academic and industry Professionals (IN-STEP) | $1,300,000.00 |
| Maulik, Romit | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | University Of Southern California / Army Research Office | MURI: Probabilistic Multiscale Inference of Interface Models under Extreme Conditions | $1,405,000.00 |
| Pekarek, Steven D | College of Engineering – Electrical & Computer Eng | Continuous Solutions / Naval Sea Systems Command | Medium Voltage Common Mode Mitigation | $4,080,622.00 |
| Peroulis, Dimitrios | College of Engineering – Electrical & Computer Eng | American Univ. of the Middle East | AUM Center for Research & Innovation | $1,000,000.00 |
| Scofield, Gregory D | PHL – Hypersonics Lab – PHL – HAMTC | Arctos Technology Solutions, LLC / Air Force Research Laboratory | PARI PHL ARCTOS HEX – Additively Manufactured Materials for Heat Exchangers | $1,156,947.00 |
| Scofield, Gregory D | PHL – Hypersonics Lab – PHL – Lab Operating | Lockheed Martin Corp. | PARI PHL Fast Launch and Advancement for Scalable Hypersonics | $1,249,990.00 |
February, 2026
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Li, Jianing | College of Pharmacy – MedChem/Molecul Phar | Phs-Nih National Institute On Aging | Generative Peptide Drug Design for AD/ADRD | $6,319,054.00 |
| Olson, Stephanie Leigh | College of Science – EAPS | National Aeronautics And Space Admin | Probing Origin Of Life Possibilities, Atmospheric Redox, & Terrestrial Environment Evolution | $4,218,897.00 |
| Sayedahmed, Ekramy | College of Veterinary Medicine – Compar Pathobiology | Animal Plant Health Inspection Service | Fogging the Threat: A Novel Therapeutic Approach to Suppress HPAI Transmission in Poultry Facilities | $2,000,000.00 |
| Scofield, Gregory D | PHL – Hypersonics Lab – PHL – HAMTC | Arctos Technology Solutions, LLC / Air Force Research Laboratory | PARI PHL ARCTOS HEX – Additively Manufactured Materials for Heat Exchangers | $1,156,947.00 |
| Yao, Yuan | College of Agriculture – Food Science | Animal Plant Health Inspection Service | Aerosolized Soluble Niclosamide for Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza | $2,000,000.00 |
January, 2026
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jayant, Krishna | College of Engineering – Biomedical Eng | Air Force Office Of Scientific Research | MURI: ENERGY- multiscalE Neural mEchanisms balancing cognitive costs undeR enerGY constraints | $4,500,000.00 |
| Jun, Martin Byung-Guk | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Eng / Korea Inst for Adv of Technology | Development of a Lightweight, Real-Time Controlled Welding Robot System for Autonomous Block Welding and Seamless Operation in Confined Ship Structures | $1,638,334.00 |
| Lee, Sunghwan | Polytechnic Institute – Engr Techn | Hansol Chemical / Korea Inst for Adv of Technology | Toward Dry-Processable Silicon Anodes for Solid-State Batteries Exceeding 7 mAh/cm² via CVD Polymer Surface Modification | $2,726,834.00 |
| Manfra, Michael James | Centers & Institutes – Birck Nanotechnology | UNIV of California-Santa Barbara / Air Force Office Of Scientific Research | TuNES: Tunable Non-reciprocal Engineered Superconductors | $1,236,124.00 |
| Oliver-Jischke, Haley | OVP for Grad Std & Postdoc Sch – Ofc of Grad Students & Postdoc Scholars | National Science Foundation | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 25-26 | $2,791,499.00 |
| Robinson-Rucker, Chanele D | College of Health & Human Sci – Human Development and Family Science | National Inst of Food & Agriculture | Early Learning Matters (ELM) | $1,036,313.00 |
| Sciascia Borlina, Caue | College of Science – EAPS | National Aeronautics And Space Admin | Determining the Influence of Impacts on the Lunar Magnetic History | $1,100,067.00 |
December, 2025
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaurentis, Daniel A | Vice President Research – Purdue Research – Central Support | Lilly (Eli) And Company | Agentic Drug Discovery Activation Plan Jan-June 2026 | $1,062,000.00 |
| Delaurentis, Daniel A | Centers & Institutes – Lilly Purdue Research Center | Lilly (Eli) And Company | Nanomedicine 2026 | $9,911,917.00 |
| Delaurentis, Daniel A | Vice President Research – Purdue Research – Central Support | Lilly (Eli) And Company | Routes of Administration 2026 | $8,874,231.00 |
| Titus, Michael S | College of Engineering – Materials Eng | Collab Composite Solutions Corp / Army, Dept of the | Purdue IACMI METAL Hub: Smart Foundry, Investment Casting, and Industry 4.0 | $1,826,545.00 |
November, 2025
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blendell, John Edward | College of Engineering – Materials Eng | US Prtnrshp for Assured Electronics / Army, Dept of the | USPAE Proposal to CIR CS-20-1302 for Lead Free Defense Electronics | $5,445,000.00 |
| Guo, Zherui | College of Engineering – Aero & Astro | Office Of Naval Research | Multi-Particle Impact Wear in High-Speed Aeroengines | $1,728,894.00 |
| Hardiman, Brady S | College of Agriculture – Forestry & Natural Resources | National Science Foundation | NSF ExLENT BEGINNINGS: Driving Real-world Integration of AI into Digital forestry and natural resources (DRIAD) | $990,272.00 |
| Scofield, Gregory D | PHL – Hypersonics Lab – PHL – HAMTC | Natnl Security Tech Accelerator / Naval Surface Warfare Ctr Crane Div | PARI PHL HAMTC JHTO – Advanced Manufacturing of Hypersonic Radomes and Apertures | $1,556,011.00 |
| Tesmer, John | College of Science – Biological Sciences | University Of Utah / Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute | Elucidating the functional role and therapeutic potential of GPCR kinase 2 in primary and therapy-resistant basal cell carcinoma | $1,120,475.00 |
| Tu, Manghui | College of Technology – Comp Info Tech & Graphics (CIT&G) | University Of West Florida / Washington Headquarters Services | Extend and Expand the AI-Cybersecurity Workforce Certification Based Training Program CWCT with AI Literacy Training | $3,000,000.00 |
October, 2025
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaurentis, Daniel A | Vice President Research – Purdue Research – Central Support | Lilly (Eli) And Company | Purdue-Lilly 360 Emboidied AI/Robotics 2025 Research Activation Plan | $4,625,457.00 |
| Paniagua-Perez, Guillermo | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Air Force Office Of Scientific Research | Embedded Flow Control for High Work / Low Reynolds Number Turbines ToWards integratiOn (bfconturTWO) | $1,030,317.00 |
| Rokhinson, Leonid P | College of Science – Physics & Astronomy | Doe-Er-basic Energy Sci, Materials Sci | High-Tc with a twist: development of high temperature parity protected qubits | $1,187,451.00 |
September, 2025
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen-Petersen, Brittany Lee | College of Science – Biological Sciences | Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute | Posttranslational regulation of macropinocytosis in pancreatic cancer | $2,289,509.00 |
| Bera, Aniket | College of Science – Computer Science | US Army ACC APG RTP Div | Advanced Air-Ground Teaming for Autonomous Terrain Mapping and Threat-Aware Navigation | $1,516,588.00 |
| Chang, Leifu | College of Science – Biological Sciences | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Molecular basis for CRISPR-associated transposons and RNA-guided transcriptional regulation | $2,187,005.00 |
| Deering, Amanda J | College of Agriculture – Food Science | Food And Drug Administration | Indiana melon production agricultural region environmental surveillance for foodborne bacterial pathogens | $1,279,931.00 |
| Delaurentis, Daniel A | Vice President Research – Purdue Research – Central Support | Stevens Institute Of Technology / Defense, U.S. Department Of | Defense Civilian Training Corps WRT-2511 Stevens-SERC-DOD | $3,443,816.00 |
| Dunn, Erin Cathleen | College of Liberal Arts – Sociology | Phs-Nih Natnl Inst Of Mental Health | Childhood adversity, DNA methylation, and psychopathology symptoms: A longitudinal study of sensitive periods and chrono-epigenetics | $2,073,792.00 |
| Faezipour, Miad | Polytechnic Institute – Engr Techn | Phs-Nih National Heart,Lung & Blood Inst | SCH: AI-Guided Intraoral Multimodal Active Sound Sensing for Advanced Pulmonary Function Characterization | $1,197,891.00 |
| Hua, Inez | College of Engineering – Civil and Construction Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: NRT: Next Generation Technology and Talent for Environmental Sustainability | $1,500,000.00 |
| Hung, Chen-Lung | College of Science – Physics & Astronomy | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Integrating Atom Arrays with 2D Photonic Crystals for Hybrid Quantum Matter | $1,305,999.00 |
| Ma, Jianxin | College of Agriculture – Agronomy | North Central Soybean Research Program | SoyRenSeq II: Validating and Deploying New Sources of Disease Resistances into Elite Soybean Lines across the North Central Region. | $1,284,139.00 |
| Malshe, Ajay P | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | National Aeronautics And Space Admin | Space-Fab for Neuromorphic Semiconductor Devices for Advanced Computing, AI/ML, and Bioelectronics | $2,198,704.00 |
| Meyer, Scott E | College of Engineering – Zucrow Lab Gen Op | Rocket Propulsion Systems LLC / Air Force U.S. Dept of the | Stage testing of the Rocket Propulsion Systems LOX/LNG stage vehicle at sea level and at vacuum conditions | $1,599,997.00 |
| Pettie, Demetria Dominique | Chancellor – TRIO Programs | Education, U.S. Department Of | PFW TRIO SSS 2025-30 | $1,361,820.00 |
| Slabaugh, Carson D | College of Engineering – Aero & Astro | GE Aerospace | Rotating Detonation Ramjet Engine Development Testing | $1,830,317.00 |
| Strimel, Greg J. | Polytechnic Institute – Tech, Leadership | National Science Foundation | Noyce Microelectronics (ME) Master Teacher Fellowship Program | $1,997,645.00 |
| Strimel, Greg J. | Polytechnic Institute – Tech, Leadership | National Science Foundation | SOURCE: Scaling Our Real-World Convergence Education | $1,992,868.00 |
| Szymanski, Daniel B | College of Agriculture – Botany & Plant Path | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Actin-mediated mechanical stress sensing and the control of epidermal tissue integrity | $1,159,007.00 |
August, 2025
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allensworth, Brittany S | Vice Provost for Teaching & Le – Student Success | Education, U.S. Department Of | Horizons Student Support Services | $2,279,920.00 |
| Cannon, Jason R | College of Health & Human Sci – Health Sciences | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of Environment Hlth Sci | Toxicology training in bidirectional translation across biological scale | $2,222,063.00 |
| Dick, Jeffrey Edward | College of Science – Chemistry | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Nanoelectrochemical Techniques for Single Cell and Spheroid Metabolomics and Pharmacokinetics | $2,071,137.00 |
| DuBose, Ronnell C | Enrollment Management and Stud Affairs – ED Opportunities Prg | Education, U.S. Department Of | TRIO Student Support Services | $1,794,515.00 |
| Green, Leopold Noel | College of Engineering – Biomedical Eng | Defense Advanced Res Projects Agency | HR001125S0007: Microsystems Induced CAtalysis (MICA): The BioLogical Translator | $8,775,915.00 |
| Kelleher, Bridgette L | College of Health & Human Sci – Psychological Sciences | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of Child Hlth,Human Dev | Digital Phenotyping of Early Development in Neurogenetic Conditions | $1,000,001.00 |
| Kihara, Daisuke | College of Science – Biological Sciences | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Data-driven biomolecular structure modeling for cryo-EM maps | $1,977,275.00 |
| Mohammadhasanzadeh, Sogand | College of Engineering – Civil and Construction Engineering | IN Department Of Transportation / Transportation, U.S. Department Of | Smarter and Safer Work Zone Through Multimodal Intrusion Detection | $1,937,095.00 |
| Poggie, Jonathan | College of Engineering – Aero & Astro | DNU Triad National Security, LLC / Los Alamos National Laboratory / Energy, U.S. Department Of | Hypersonic Fluid-Structure Interaction Reference Experiments | $1,425,000.00 |
| Rao, Sanjay G | College of Engineering – Electrical & Computer Eng | National Science Foundation | NeTS: Medium: Self-correcting ML-driven Resource Allocation in Networked Systems | $1,080,000.00 |
| Sankaranarayanan, Karthik | College of Agriculture – Ag & Biological Eng Program | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Biocatalytic synthesis of complex medicinal small molecules informed by A.I. planning | $2,063,160.00 |
| Song, Xiaohui Carol | Information Technology – IT Research Computing | National Science Foundation | Frameworks: StreamCI: An AI-Ready Streaming Data Platform for Diverse Scientific Applications | $3,999,999.00 |
| Tay, Sien Chieh | College of Health & Human Sci – Psychological Sciences | John Templeton Foundation | Enhancing Well-Being and Virtue with AI Conversational Agents | $3,591,675.00 |
| Tesmer, John | College of Science – Biological Sciences | Phs-Nih Nat Inst Of General Medical Sci | Purdue Molecular Biophysics Training Program | $1,918,620.00 |
| Yang, Danzhou | College of Pharmacy – MedChem/Molecul Phar | Phs-Nih National Cancer Institute | Targeting PDGFR-b promoter vacancy G-quadruplex to suppress gene expression | $2,906,409.00 |
July, 2025
| Principal Investigator | Departments | Sponsor | Grant Title | Total Project Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chang, Soowon | Polytechnic Institute – Const Mgmt Tech | IN Department Of Transportation / Transportation, U.S. Department Of | Best Practices for Implementing Driving Simulators in INDOT Driver Training | $1,412,695.00 |
| Klimeck, Gerhard | Centers & Institutes – NCN | National Science Foundation | Chip Design Hub: Open, Accessible and Scalable Infrastructure for Research and Education | $7,000,000.00 |
| Lashkari, Nima | College of Science – Physics & Astronomy | John Templeton Foundation | Emergence of Time from Chaos in Operator Algebras | $1,528,985.00 |
| Sharif, Behzad | College of Engineering – Biomedical Eng | Phs-Nih National Heart,Lung & Blood Inst | NIH R01HL153430 — Noninvasive Testing of Coronary Microvascular Reactivity Using High-resolution Free- breathing MRI | $1,802,173.00 |
| Stewart, Ranae K | Centers & Institutes – TAP/MEP | National Institute Of Standards & Tech | Purdue University – MEP Center for State of Indiana | $3,303,181.00 |
| Subbarayan-Shastri, Ganesh | College of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | University Of Texas At Austin / Defense Advanced Res Projects Agency | DARPA NGMM with Texas Institute of Electronics (U. Texas) | $5,000,000.00 |
| Weinstein, Dana | Centers & Institutes – Birck Nanotechnology | Defense Advanced Res Projects Agency | IMMORTAL MEMS: Integrated Mechanical MicrO Resonators with Thin film ALD | $1,200,000.00 |